Disliked{quote} ok I now know where you are coming I have been previously told that it's illegal to cover your face in public in the UK and in fact it's not (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_laws) so much of my argument is invalid but if you had a small percentage of the local population (white men) that were regular covering their face's and going out in public I think people would not have a problem with saying no that's illegal now as we have a new law but because British society has not had this problem before we do not have a law to enforce...Ignored
In my view the problem is allowing anyone into the country who has a different culture. When you do that you effectively dilute your own culture of liberty and democracy, and every round of dilutions brings the end of democracy and freedom that smidgen closer. Enacting legislation that is deemed to alienate the community very often makes any problems, perceived or otherwise, worse. Enacting repressive legislation, is truly a last resort.
You mentioned Irish terrorism. Irish terrorism was a considerably bigger problem in this country than Islamic terrorism. The PIRA had the capacity and the organisation to set off many bombs in one day, Belfast witnessed over 20 bombs on 21st July 1972 for example. What the British found early on when dealing with the PIRA, was that measures to control the PIRA, through legislation such as internment of known terrorists, and the Falls curfew, or even killing terrorists directly, had the direct opposite impact on reducing terrorism.
Every single 'mistake' was used instead by the PIRA to drive massive recruitment into the PIRA fueling the terrorist campaign for another generation. Even single mistake of the British became a propaganda tool for the terrorist, one which they exploited with great skill, to paint the British as the oppressor to the Irish people - when in reality it was the PIRA who were the facists. The British realised that the only way to defeat it Irish terrorism, was to wait it out, to infiltrate the terrorist, to sideline the hawks and to promote through their agents of influence the moderates.
If you ban the burqa, you hand a propaganda victory to the radical Islamists preachers living in Britain, who can then cry discrimination and pollute the minds of the would be moderates. Irish terrorism should, and will guide British policy on this issue.